Mr. WEBB:

I was going to say that I would not quarrel with the suggestion that it was mutually exclusive, but if the hon. Member who moved the Resolution will allow me to say so, I do not think the proposal provides for all the elements necessary to such an inquiry. The Committee is to report to the House before the Summer Recess, which would compress all their work into the months of June and July. I do not like that kind of Committee. They would only register a sort of consensus or summary of the statements of opinion made before them. No doubt the Report would be very ably drafted by a competent civil servant, who would be made secretary, but I am not prepared to think that it would be of the value suggested.